Oracle buys Open Source vendors, was: Windows-like registry for Linux?

[Ted Roche]

On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> I do find it curious that Oracle is buying up the commercial DB  
> backends that are used in F/LOSS.

Yeah, what's up with that? InnoDB last year and now Sleepycat. I've  
done a few development projects with Oracle 8 and 9, but I'm not well- 
informed on how they work. I understand Oracle buys a fair number of  
small software companies. Is this like CA, who absorbs and smothers?

What do you think they are up to?


Ted Roche
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